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An Award-Winning Restroom
A restroom so good lookin', it has its own web page.

Downtown merchants began a series of fund raisers including silent auctions, little “outhouse” donation boxes in all the shops and a hand painted thermometer sign in the center of town to mark their progress.  Donations and discounts were requested of labor and materials.  When Aurora’s well known re-creation of the Oregon Trail crossing during the state’s sesquicentennial in 1993 brought its wagon and mule team back home, the mules and souvenirs of the trip were sold at a special community auction and those funds, too, went toward the restroom.  Two years later and with the final help of some county grant funds, the restroom was finished, eventually winning a statewide award.